Lilly Ledbetter: The Fight Ain’t Over

Goodyear, You Can Spare $360K for Lilly Ledbetter, wrote PunditMom yesterday:

It’s really been bothering me that a corporation like Goodyear that reported profits of $602 million in 2007 (its most current annual SEC filing) most likely spent much more on attorneys’ fees than the $360K it could have paid Lilly, trying to convince us it didn’t practice gender discrimination. According to its 2007 annual report, Goodyear did, however, pay millions to settle other types of lawsuits. So I thought, wouldn’t it be refreshing if Goodyear would do the right thing and pay Lilly Ledbetter the back wages it should have paid her in the first place?

Why not take a couple of minutes this weekend to get the scoop from Punditmom and then take her suggestion and send a note to Goodyear via their online form? She even includes a template you can crib if you’re short on time/not feeling creative.

You can also join the Demand Justice for Lilly Ledbetter Facebook group.

Unconventional Women, Pt. 2

by elissabassist

Part Two of Unconventional Women? (commentary on the female-minded conference at the DNC in Denver, CO).

While I’m still (forever?) entrenched in the battle between Feminism v. Femininity, I’d be doing half the population a disservice not to acknowledge what these torch-bearers actually said (in spite of the decor). In short: I. was. so. into. these. women.

The players:

California Senator Barbara Boxer, Political Commentator Donna Brazile, CEO of Girl Scouts Kathy Cloninger, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Congresswoman Hilda Solis (D-CA), and Former Governor Jane Swift (R-MA)

I sat in on two conversations: “On the Campaign Trail,” and “So, You’re in Office … Now What?” I was elated that individuals (who happen to have vaginas) exist who not only represent my interests, but who also fight my fight with me and for me in the political sphere on a daily basis. Dudettes, listen up, feminism is not becoming an anachron-ism.